changeset 60041:123a4dbb8a87

(Autoload): defun's doc string overrides autoload's doc string. (Repeated Loading): Modernize "add to list" examples. (Where Defined): Finish updating table of load-history elts.

--- a/lispref/loading.texi	Mon Feb 14 10:14:29 2005 +0000
+++ b/lispref/loading.texi	Mon Feb 14 10:16:24 2005 +0000
@@ -365,10 +365,12 @@
 just @var{filename} with no added suffix.
 
 The argument @var{docstring} is the documentation string for the
-function.  Normally, this should be identical to the documentation string
-in the function definition itself.  Specifying the documentation string
-in the call to @code{autoload} makes it possible to look at the
-documentation without loading the function's real definition.
+function.  Specifying the documentation string in the call to
+@code{autoload} makes it possible to look at the documentation without
+loading the function's real definition.  Normally, this should be
+identical to the documentation string in the function definition
+itself.  If it isn't, the function definition's documentation string
+takes effect when it is loaded.
 
 If @var{interactive} is non-@code{nil}, that says @var{function} can be
 called interactively.  This lets completion in @kbd{M-x} work without
@@ -526,8 +528,7 @@
   The simplest way to add an element to an alist is like this:
 
 @example
-(setq minor-mode-alist
-      (cons '(leif-mode " Leif") minor-mode-alist))
+(push '(leif-mode " Leif") minor-mode-alist)
 @end example
 
 @noindent
@@ -536,12 +537,15 @@
 
 @example
 (or (assq 'leif-mode minor-mode-alist)
-    (setq minor-mode-alist
-          (cons '(leif-mode " Leif") minor-mode-alist)))
+    (push '(leif-mode " Leif") minor-mode-alist))
 @end example
 
-  To add an element to a list just once, you can also use @code{add-to-list}
-(@pxref{Setting Variables}).
+@noindent
+or this:
+
+@example
+(add-to-list '(leif-mode " Leif") minor-mode-alist)
+@end example
 
   Occasionally you will want to test explicitly whether a library has
 already been loaded.  Here's one way to test, in a library, whether it
@@ -746,12 +750,12 @@
 @item @var{var}
 The symbol @var{var} was defined as a variable.
 @item (defun . @var{fun})
-The @var{fun} was defined by this library.
+The function @var{fun} was defined.
 @item (t . @var{fun})
 The function @var{fun} was previously an autoload before this library
-redefined it as a function.  The following element is always the
-symbol @var{fun}, which signifies that the library defined @var{fun}
-as a function.
+redefined it as a function.  The following element is always
+@code{(defun . @var{fun}), which represents defining @var{fun} as a
+function.
 @item (autoload . @var{fun})
 The function @var{fun} was defined as an autoload.
 @item (require . @var{feature})